DON'T LET CULTURE DRIFT AS YOU SCALE

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Culture changes every time you hire someone new, but most founders only notice when it's already broken - usually around employee 20 when proximity to founders starts fading. The key isn't just defining values but turning them into visible behaviors - celebrate when someone lives them, call out when someone doesn't - because as the military says, doing something below standard and saying nothing sets a new standard. Culture drifts about every six months during rapid growth, so plan regular resets at off-sites where you reconnect on what values look like in practice.